{"id":690,"date":"2014-04-29T16:40:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=690"},"modified":"2014-04-29T16:40:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:40:32","slug":"first-commercial-recording-for-garsington-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"FIRST COMMERCIAL RECORDING FOR GARSINGTON OPERA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Ga<\/strong><strong>rsington Opera<\/strong>, celebrating its 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary season in June-July 2014, releases its first commercially available recording in June, the rare Rossini opera <em>Maometto secondo<\/em> under the Avie label.\u00a0\u00a0 The 3-CD set, recorded live at Garsington Opera\u2019s universally acclaimed 2013 performances \u2013 the first-ever fully staged production of <em>Maometto secondo<\/em> in the UK \u2013\u00a0 is stylishly packaged in a 100-page hardbound book, complete with synopsis, essay and libretto in Italian with English translations. <!--more-->Set in the 15<sup>th<\/sup> century, Rossini\u2019s hugely ambitious undertaking depicts the Turkish Sultan Maometto\u2019s siege of the Venetian outpost of Negroponte and his ultimate defeat. The superb international cast is led by the suitably menacing bass-baritone <strong>Darren Jeffery<\/strong> in the title role, with American soprano <strong>Si\u00e2n Davies<\/strong> in her European debut as his anguished daughter Anna, Australian mezzo <strong>Caitlin Hulcup<\/strong> as the general Calbo, and tenor <strong>Paul Nilon<\/strong> as the Venetian Governor.\u00a0 Under the assured baton of <strong>David Parry\u00a0 <\/strong>the highly praised Garsington Opera Orchestra and the talented and energetic 27 strong Chorus highlight the brilliant and dramatic score.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Garsington Opera, celebrating its 25th anniversary season in June-July 2014, releases its first commercially available recording in June, the rare Rossini opera Maometto secondo under the Avie label.\u00a0\u00a0 The 3-CD set, recorded live at Garsington Opera\u2019s universally acclaimed 2013 performances &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}